How old is your neighborhood before you start to get bored of these sims?

Well, I kept playing the old neighborhood, and decided that I would take someone's advice (Lynet's maybe? Can't rightly remember, sorry) and let the main familes keep going on, let the unwanted sims die out/become townies, and let some of the main family members marry townies so they could bring some new blood to the neighborhood. Plus, Hubby is now on day shift, so it has cut into my playtime considerably. Less time to sim means more time to think about new things to do with them. hehehe

 

tired of sims?

I've played either the Pleasant 'hood or Veronaville for the past year. I think it would get old playing the same family all the time, but I always try to play a different family each night. I started a legacy family in Veronaville & they don't get played any more than the other 20+ houses & 8 (aack!) univ. properties.
I'm looking forward to starting a Ugly Maid legacy next & maybe take a shot at the 7 toddler household, but for now there's just not enough time in my RL for all the simmies I need to play.

 

I play in rotation to at least attempt to keep everyone on the same timeline, which helps keep up interest because I'm not always playing the same family. I am working on the next batch to send to college and some of my gen 3 sims are about to become elders (sniff! so hard to do).

However, playing that way makes it hard to build a business empire. I'm starting to realize that's really a generational thing, anyway. I'm going to have sims pass down their business skills, and businesses, to the next gen and then build it up little by little. Adds some interest to do that, as well.

My biggest challenge is not building new sims all the time. I get these ideas and I want to try them out, and before I know it my hood is overpopulated.

I've got no self-discipline, LOL.

 

I'm always really impatient with my sims. I don't have enough time to play them for a long time, and my computer is sooo slow... Sometimes I be naughty and use the Sinsimenator to help them grow up Then again, I tend to have more fun if I don't use cheats. I haven't even got to generation two, suprise suprise.

Hmmm. I was wondering, does anyone have any ideas, like for inspiration? For example, make a... family of elves with a huge property and a 4 storey tower, and a forest with the evil teenage sorcerer living in, who, coincidently, is unknowingly brothers with one of the guards at the tower, who is a family sim in love with the Queen, and she's a romance sim. That was just an example. I would love to hear some ideas...?

Oh yeah, I remember LOL, I actually made the above, I just haven't played it yet... The tower's really cool, it goes underground to a dungeon

 

LOL, Alison, sounds like you've got quite an imagination without any help from us.

You could try having a teenager raise their toddler younger sib (in other words, kill off the parent) or have an elder try to raise some adopted kiddies on no money and an elder job.

Have a pair of romance sims get married and then have them cheat and try not to get caught.

Open a business selling only one thing.

Have a family of faeries who can't use technology (you decide what that entails). Or a family of mermaids who have to stay in the water, LOL.

Or Rapunzel. Keep her in the tower without having her suffer death by flies or a permanent social bunny.

I don't know. I'm not very creative today. I think you're doing just fine on your own.

 

You're kidding, right! All those suggestions. Wish I weren't too busy now with something else. Think I'll come back to this later. :bandit: